• DOI:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.04.098
Corpus ID: 206653924

Occurrence and spatial distribution of emerging contaminants in the unsaturated zone. case study: Guadalete River basin (Cadiz, Spain).

@article{CoradaFernndez2015OccurrenceAS,
  title={Occurrence and spatial distribution of emerging contaminants in the unsaturated zone. case study: Guadalete River basin (Cadiz, Spain).},
  author={C. Corada-Fern{\'a}ndez and J. Jimenez-Martinez and L. Candela and E. Gonz{\'a}lez-Mazo and P. Lara-Martin},
  journal={Chemosphere},
  year={2015},
  volume={119 Suppl},
  pages={
          S131-7
        }
}

C. Corada-Fernández, J. Jimenez-Martinez, +2 authors P. Lara-Martin

Published 2015

Environmental Science, Medicine

Chemosphere

Irrigation with reclaimed water is becoming a common practice in arid- and semi-arid regions as a consequence of structural water resource scarcity. This practice can lead to contamination of the vadose zone if sewage-derived contaminants are not removed properly. In the current work, we have characterized soils from the Guadalete River basin (SW Spain), which are often irrigated with reclaimed water from a nearby wastewater treatment plant and amended using sludge. Physico-chemical… CONTINUE READING

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